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Removing lilo boot and Linux from disk



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> 	fips and probably Partition Magic (just a guess here) are used to
> 	shrink partitions (after doing a defrag of the disk), not to enlarge
> 	them. I have had very good luck with fips in the past and have no
> 	doubts on using it (most of the time without the safety net of a
> 	backup!). I wonder if there will be enhancements needed to be able
> 	to shrink a Windows-95 partition (VFAT?)?
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I've only had one problem with FIPS: It doesn't seem to be able to handle
DOS partitions that use the "fake" LBA scheme. If anyone knows how to make
FIPS partition these types of partitions I'd really appreciate it.

BAJ